Dress, Ornament and Bodily Identities in Early Medieval Ireland
Author: Maureen Doyle
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 296
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Author: Maureen Doyle
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eileen Reilly
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2024-04-25
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1803276533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the living conditions and environments as experienced by early medieval people in Ireland, touching upon a wide range of environmental, architectural, artefactual and historical datasets from significant archaeological excavations of settlement sites across Ireland and Northern Europe.
Author: Mags Mannion
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1784911976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first dedicated and comprehensive study of glass beads from Early Medieval Ireland, presenting the first national classification, typology, dating, symbology and social performance of glass beads.
Author: Hannah V. Mattson
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2021-06-09
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1789255961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKObjects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.
Author: Meg Boulton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1783274115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England.
Author: Louisa Campbell
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2016-05-07
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1785701835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’. Previous studies have highlighted the various problems and challenges presented by identity, with the overall effect of deconstructing it to insignificance. As the humanities and social sciences turn to material culture, archaeology provides a unique perspective on the interaction between people and things over the long term. This volume argues that identity is worth studying not despite its slippery nature, but because of it. Identity can be seen as an emergent property of living in a material world, an ongoing process of becoming which archaeologists are particularly well suited to study. The geographic and temporal scale of the papers included is purposefully broad to demonstrate the variety of ways in which archaeology is redefining identity. Research areas span from the Great Lakes to the Mediterranean, with case studies from the Mesolithic to the contemporary world by emerging voices in the field. The volume contains a critical review of theories of identity by the editors, as well as a response and afterward by A. Bernard Knapp.
Author: Sarah Tarlow
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 870
ISBN-13: 0199569061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.
Author: Susan Flavin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1843839504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of changing patterns of consumption, showing how these related to wider political, social and economic developments. This book, based on extensive original research, argues that everyday Irish consumption underwent major changes in the 16th century. The book considers the changing nature of imported goods in relation especially to two major activities of daily living: dress and diet. It integrates quantitative data on imports with qualitative sources, including wills, archaeological and pictorial evidence, and contemporary literature and legislation. It shows that changes in Irish consumption mirrored changes occurring in England and across Europe and that they were a function of broader developments in the Irish economy, including the increasing participation of Irish merchants in European markets. The book also discusses how consumption was related to wider political, economic and cultural developments in Ireland, showing how the acquisition and interpretation of material goods were key factors in the mediation of political and social boundaries in a semi-colonised and contested society. Susan Flavin completed her doctorate in early modern history at the University of Bristol.
Author: Katherine Leonard
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1784912212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction of the bronze slashing sword to Ireland at around 1200 BC and the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC.
Author: Bernice Kelly (Archaeologist)
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780957438088
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